Visa (V) Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 15 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" V shares.
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17 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Visa's shares. Their V share price forecasts range from $246.00 to $300.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $273.77 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.6% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $207.76 at the beginning of the year. Since then, V stock has increased by 13.1% and is now trading at $234.88.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 24th 2023.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) released its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 25th. The credit-card processor reported $2.16 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.11 by $0.05. The credit-card processor had revenue of $8.12 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.06 billion. Visa had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 49.42% and a net margin of 51.94%. The company's revenue was up 11.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.98 EPS.
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Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 25th. Investors of record on Friday, August 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.45 per share on Friday, September 1st. This represents a $1.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.77%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 10th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Visa (NYSE:V) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Upholdings Compound Kings ETF (KNGS), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL), Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH) and ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY).

Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.74%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 14 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 22.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.42% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Visa's stock split on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which permits the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 3.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

Visa trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "V."

Visa's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (106.69%), BlackRock Inc. (6.82%), State Street Corp (3.98%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.37%) and Capital International Investors (1.10%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, James H Hoffmeister, Julie B Rottenberg, Lloyd Carney, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon and Vasant M Prabhu.
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Shares of V stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $234.88.

Visa (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $437.31 billion and generates $29.31 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $14.96 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.88 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 26,500 workers across the globe.

Visa's mailing address is P.O. BOX 8999, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94128. The official website for the company is usa.visa.com. The credit-card processor can be reached via phone at (650) 432-3200 or via email at ir@visa.com.